Commit-ID: 0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0998b7a0befdf6e734032895ee639a5e6f88cc3f Author: Martin Kepplinger <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:01:38 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:31:43 +0200
objtool: Fix memory leak in elf_create_rela_section() Let's free the allocated char array 'relaname' before returning, in order to avoid leaking memory. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <[email protected]> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- tools/objtool/elf.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c index 6e9f980..1e89a5f 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/elf.c +++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ struct section *elf_create_rela_section(struct elf *elf, struct section *base) strcat(relaname, base->name); sec = elf_create_section(elf, relaname, sizeof(GElf_Rela), 0); + free(relaname); if (!sec) return NULL;

